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J. Prestwich to J. Evans. LONDON, istk May 1859. 



MY DEAR EVANS, I shall be restless until I visit Hoxne, 

 especially as I wish to see it before my paper is read (which 

 must be next week, if at all). So I want you to be so good as 

 let me postpone my visit for a day or two. Cannot you come to 

 Hoxne with me next Saturday at 3 P.M. and return on Monday 

 evening? At all events I will, if convenient to you, take an 

 early afternoon train to Nash Mills on Tuesday and report pro- 

 gress, and return on Wednesday morning. I should then equally 

 see you and have the pleasure of the introduction which you 

 promised me. I would have gone to Hoxne last Saturday, but 

 did not like going there without you if possible, so I went en 

 attendant to Salisbury, but without any success. 



I have found out three brick pits at or near Hoxne, and hope 

 to find traditions of the discovery and to have a trench dug on 

 the right spot. I am, ever truly yours, Jos. PRESTWICH. 



I enclose you two letters just received from M. de Perth es. I 

 shall want a few lines from you for the Eoyal. . . . 



This expedition to Hoxne, in Suffolk, was the result 

 of Mr Evans having come across some flint implements 

 found there in the end of the last century by Mr John 

 Frere, F.R.S., to be seen in the museum of the Society 

 of Antiquaries. Mr Evans's attention had at the time 

 also been called by the late Sir A. Wollaston Franks 

 to a flint implement found in Gray's Inn Lane, and 

 preserved in the British Museum, and of which he 

 (Mr Evans) gave notice in a paper to the Society of 

 Antiquaries. This flint implement is notable as being 

 the first discovered in Quaternary gravels in this or 

 any other country. The paper was read on 2nd June 

 1859, a week after Prestwich's communication to the 

 Royal Society. This latter made a great sensation, 

 demonstrating as it did that a large portion of the 

 flints in M. de Perthes' collection were of human 



